Oct 07 2023 73 mins 2
Another movie that's (loosely) connected to the story of Jesus. We didn't plan it that way, but there it is. The other four films all have some connection to World War II, which at the time was still fresh in the mind for many people. We do have SPOILERS, but not so many as in other episodes? Listen at your own risk; as always we tend to talk about the films with the assumption that our listeners have seen them.
00:10 Intro
1:24 Monty Python boys
3:31 Old films, color vs black and white film
9:59 Ben-Hur
21:49 The fad for sword and sandal epics
24:20 Anatomy of a Murder
30:26 Stewart vs Heston
34:07 Room at the Top
37:11 SPOILERS for Room at the Top
38:40 Why is it so unpleasant?
42:27 The Diary of Anne Frank
55:21 The Nun's Story
1:06:12 Summing up
1:09:18 We start to ramble a bit before wrapping up
1:11:51 Bob is trying to think of El Dorado with John Wayne, James Caan, and Robert Mitchum
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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
